37 Night Children
"Sweetheart, wake up."
Franchesca turned to the other side of the bed, refusing to wake up. Cedric chuckled. She's so cute as she slept.
Yesterday, she slept so peacefully that he worried if she had gotten ill. However that late afternoon, she is so relaxed on her side she was hugging a pillow and refused to wake up.
"Hey, I'm here already. Stop dreaming." His lips came close to her left ear.
"But the sun hasn't set yet." She murmured.
"Eh, you're a faerie. Not a vampire." He gave her a light bite on her ear and she woke up instantly. But instead of getting up, she turned to face him and buried her face in his chest.
"Hmmn, can't I be one?" She joked. But jokes are in actually half truths. As she realized what she blurted out, she wonder if that is possible.
From what he told her of his bloodline, there are two kinds of vampyres. The first are the ones like him, born from a female commoner or witch. The second are the commoners who are later turned to bloodsuckers.
A born vampyre stop ageing after reaching maturity, they can opt to eat normal food but needs to sustain blood intake. If the mother is a witch, they can possess certain magical ability.
Cedric having inherited the power of the 13th Wizard King, and the blood of the 1st vampire indeed is the strongest in his clan.
Turned vampyres stop ageing the moment they are turned, and can only latch on blood alone. Before the 13 wizards came about, turned vampyres of different age and race roamed the earth.
Once child vampyres are so rampant as they looked like living porcelain dolls that many adult vampyres turned common children into one, but they became too troublesome in the end and had to be eliminated.
Hearing her question, blacklines appeared into Cedric's forehead.
"That may not be a very good idea."
"Why is that?" She frowned looking up at him.
"Don't you want to mature fully? You're only fifteen. If I turned you into a vampyre now, you'll remain unchanged forever." He look deep into her eyes. Making sure she understands him, and not overthinking things. "Once turned, not a single hair on you will change. You can cut it tonight and wake up next day with it fully grown back to how it was."
Realizing what his words imply, her eyes then widened when the thought hit her.
"I won't be able to give birth!" She exclaimed.
"Yeah. Female vampyres can never have children of their own, unless they give birth first before being turned." This aside from the fact that she is still so young she can be classified as a child vampyre, and in turn will create unrest with the others.
The old vampyres back then treasured one or more child vampires in their coven. They love them so much that they fought for their survival. However, it is as clear as the sun that child vampyres poses a threat to their existence.
Uncontrollable as they are, they massacred numerous villages in the early days. This made the commoners hunt them almost to extinction. A higher coven was formed and ordered everyone to kill child vampyres or be killed themselves.
That higher coven was headed by Frankie himself. It was very unfortunate that Frankie's sister loved a child vampyre she turned herself. She refused to have that child killed. But Frankie and his coven is determined not to ever spare one child vampyre and to forbid anyone from making one again.
His sister had gone into the sun with her child vampyre in the end. When the child vampyres had all gone, some brokenhearted vampyres retreated into the earth. Many covens had been abandoned.
Frankie himself went on a solo journey, until he met and fell in love with a common girl. Veronika was a young girl of 12 back then, and being an orphan she was sold to Frankie's household as a maid.
"Is she the one who the 13th king fell in love with?" He had mentioned the previous night how the butler had taken on the task of taking care of Cedric's bloodline.
It was because of Frankie's love for the common girl. So he loved her so much but she fell in love with a wizard instead. He had raised her himself, in his household, like his own but didn't turn her into a vampyre. His own rule of not ever creating a child vampyre bit him back.
Also, Veronika only saw him as her best friend, father and saviour. Not a lover. When the wizards came around, the 13th king and Veronika had fallen in love and took refuge in a realm the king had made.
When they were attacked, Frankie rescued and nursed her back to health until she gave birth. But, it cost her life. From then on Frankie had taken care of every child born into her family.
Franchesca turned to the other side of the bed, refusing to wake up. Cedric chuckled. She's so cute as she slept.
Yesterday, she slept so peacefully that he worried if she had gotten ill. However that late afternoon, she is so relaxed on her side she was hugging a pillow and refused to wake up.
"Hey, I'm here already. Stop dreaming." His lips came close to her left ear.
"But the sun hasn't set yet." She murmured.
"Eh, you're a faerie. Not a vampire." He gave her a light bite on her ear and she woke up instantly. But instead of getting up, she turned to face him and buried her face in his chest.
"Hmmn, can't I be one?" She joked. But jokes are in actually half truths. As she realized what she blurted out, she wonder if that is possible.
From what he told her of his bloodline, there are two kinds of vampyres. The first are the ones like him, born from a female commoner or witch. The second are the commoners who are later turned to bloodsuckers.
A born vampyre stop ageing after reaching maturity, they can opt to eat normal food but needs to sustain blood intake. If the mother is a witch, they can possess certain magical ability.
Cedric having inherited the power of the 13th Wizard King, and the blood of the 1st vampire indeed is the strongest in his clan.
Turned vampyres stop ageing the moment they are turned, and can only latch on blood alone. Before the 13 wizards came about, turned vampyres of different age and race roamed the earth.
Once child vampyres are so rampant as they looked like living porcelain dolls that many adult vampyres turned common children into one, but they became too troublesome in the end and had to be eliminated.
Hearing her question, blacklines appeared into Cedric's forehead.
"That may not be a very good idea."
"Why is that?" She frowned looking up at him.
"Don't you want to mature fully? You're only fifteen. If I turned you into a vampyre now, you'll remain unchanged forever." He look deep into her eyes. Making sure she understands him, and not overthinking things. "Once turned, not a single hair on you will change. You can cut it tonight and wake up next day with it fully grown back to how it was."
Realizing what his words imply, her eyes then widened when the thought hit her.
"I won't be able to give birth!" She exclaimed.
"Yeah. Female vampyres can never have children of their own, unless they give birth first before being turned." This aside from the fact that she is still so young she can be classified as a child vampyre, and in turn will create unrest with the others.
The old vampyres back then treasured one or more child vampires in their coven. They love them so much that they fought for their survival. However, it is as clear as the sun that child vampyres poses a threat to their existence.
Uncontrollable as they are, they massacred numerous villages in the early days. This made the commoners hunt them almost to extinction. A higher coven was formed and ordered everyone to kill child vampyres or be killed themselves.
That higher coven was headed by Frankie himself. It was very unfortunate that Frankie's sister loved a child vampyre she turned herself. She refused to have that child killed. But Frankie and his coven is determined not to ever spare one child vampyre and to forbid anyone from making one again.
His sister had gone into the sun with her child vampyre in the end. When the child vampyres had all gone, some brokenhearted vampyres retreated into the earth. Many covens had been abandoned.
Frankie himself went on a solo journey, until he met and fell in love with a common girl. Veronika was a young girl of 12 back then, and being an orphan she was sold to Frankie's household as a maid.
"Is she the one who the 13th king fell in love with?" He had mentioned the previous night how the butler had taken on the task of taking care of Cedric's bloodline.
It was because of Frankie's love for the common girl. So he loved her so much but she fell in love with a wizard instead. He had raised her himself, in his household, like his own but didn't turn her into a vampyre. His own rule of not ever creating a child vampyre bit him back.
Also, Veronika only saw him as her best friend, father and saviour. Not a lover. When the wizards came around, the 13th king and Veronika had fallen in love and took refuge in a realm the king had made.
When they were attacked, Frankie rescued and nursed her back to health until she gave birth. But, it cost her life. From then on Frankie had taken care of every child born into her family.